Marnie Reilly is a hot-headed counselor with a difficult past; a dead mother, father, brother and an abusive ex-boyfriend. She has just publicly taken on "The Collective," a group of psychics and charlatans that have been selling hope at top dollar to troubled people looking for answers. They have threatened her, but she hasn't taken their "hoodoo-voodoo" nonsense seriously, until now. She realizes her duty of care toward people has placed her and her border collie Tater in danger. When the police find Marnie's ex-boyfriend's corpse in her shed, she ends up in the middle of a murder inquiry....